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Moderate Umar Farooq drops the brick Musharraf isn't thrilled by Geelani-led hardliners 1/21/2007 12:45:36 AM BL KAK NEW DELHI | JAN 20 Maulvi Umar Farooq, one of the juniormost separatist leaders of Kashmir, has successfully egged Pakistan President, Gen. Parvez Musharraf, on to avoid attaching more-than-necessary importance to the obdurate secessionist hardliner, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, and his followers in Kashmir. Gen. Musharraf's "cordial" interaction with the moderate Maulvi Umar Farooq and other senior leaders of Kashmir's Hurriyat Conference in Islamabad on Friday (Jan. 19) significantly took place barely 24 hours after his stern warning to clerics in Pakistan not to encourage religious extremism and fanaticism. True, Gen. Musharraf's line of thinking in relation to anti-India Muslim hardliners in Kashmir is different from the one he has in relation to Islamic militants and jehadis in his country. But the fact that he has not appreciated a set of utterances of Syed Ali Shah Geelani in recent times has been borne out once again by his (Gen. Musharraf's) acceptance of the representative character of the Hurriyat Conference headed by Maulvi Umar Farooq. Yet another factor which ha...   READ MORE

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Cache including 4.5kg RDX recovered from Budhal Two HuM top commanders gunned down in fierce gun battle 1/21/2007 12:44:05 AM Doda | Jan 20 Two top commanders of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) outfit were killed in Nali Doru area of Gandoh of Doda district in a fierce gun battle lasting for over five hours, while a constable who was injured in the gun fight was evacuated to civil hospital for treatment .Two AK-47 rifles, two magazines and large quantity of incriminating material have also been recovered from the site of encounter. According to reports, Doda police booked specific information at wee hours today about the movement of militants in Nali Doru area under the jurisdiction of Police Station, Gandoh. A search operation was immediately launched by Doda Police to nab the militants. During search, at about ...   READ MORE

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